The museum holds more than 7,000 paintings, stamps, half a million matchbox labels; autographs of Anna Akhmatova, Nikolai Gumilyov, Alexey Tolstoy, Olga Bergolts; books, archives of famous people in Tambov; collections of watches, children's toys, photographic equipment, microscopes, first radio receivers and televisions, cold arms, household items of the 18th – 20th centuries, antique musical instruments, first sound-reproducing apparatuses, telephones, gramophones, music boxes; collection of furniture XVIII – XX centuries.